CALL FOR PROPOSALS 2010

Announcing Le Petit Versailles

CALL FOR PROPOSALS 2010

Submission Postmark Deadline is January 1, 2010.

Le Petit Versailles 2010 Season - Call for Proposals.

LPV was created in 1996 by Allied Productions and other neighborhood members as a GreenThumb public garden located at 346 East Houston St. @ Avenue C in the East Village. It is volunteer based and is dedicated to preserving the vitality of NYC greenspace through the arts, broadening & enriching the general public with performances, screenings, workshops and similar activities.

We present 6 months of public events May- November with music & film series, visual art exhibitions and workshops. We are looking for unusual ideas that address the environment, social and progressive issues and the site specific nature of the garden itself. Temporary installations, performances, films, workshops in any discipline are desired. Exhibitions must include works that can withstand the rigors of nature.

We are also on the list of available sites for the community service proponent of the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Program. Target audiences and communities include queer, people of color, gardeners, local neighborhood residents, artists and activists from around the world.

POSTMARK DEADLINE January 1. 2010

Please submit email proposals/questions to petitversailles@earthlink.net or by regular mail c/o

Allied Productions PO Box 20260 New York, NY 10009

check our blogsite for past activities http://www.lpvtv.blogspot.com

Proposals must include the following:

Name: _______________________________

Address: ____________________________________

____________________________________________

ideal month for performance:_____________________

Phone #: ________________________

e-mail : _________________________

Applying for: genre: (circle all that apply) .

Readings . Music . Dance . Theater . Film. Video

Exhibition . Installation . Workshops. Other

Required Application Materials.

A. This form B. a one page (or less) description of the work you wish to present, include a general budget , approximate running time, number of performers and current phase of the work (experimenting, work in progress, fine tuning, finished work) C. one of the following: Website, slides, Jpegs, VHS video tape, DVD, CD, or Audio tape of your previous work, or a version of what you would like to perform - cued to its best 3-minute segment. If you send a DVD or CD, write the track number or cue time here _____ D. Artist statement and/or performance group's mission statement, or ideas that guide your work E. Performance resume (Individual and/or group's) F. Self- Addressed Stamped Envelope with enough postage for the return of your images applications from outside U.S.: include international reply coupon. Applications without a SASE will not be returned. G. Optional supporting materials: performance photographs. copies of reviews / previews / press. a score, script, or section thereof (no more than 3 pages). set and/or costume designs (no more than 2).

Incomplete applications will not be considered.

ALTHOUGH WE PROVIDE ARTIST FEES AND OTHER ADMINISTRATIVE/TECHNICAL SUPPORT NOT ALL PROPOSALS WILL BE FUNDED. PLEASE INDICATE IF THIS PROPOSAL CAN BE REALIZED WITHOUT OUR SUPPORT. THANK YOU.

"1+1: Paraphrasing Gogol (You and Me and the Garden of Eden)"

OCTOBER 24, 2009 @ 8pm.

1+1: Paraphrasing Gogol

(You and Me and the Garden of Eden)"

by Abby Donovan

The artist, a phrase from Wittgenstein, her fishing pole, and an assistant.

Abby Donovan is interested in the urgency and absurdity of what she thinks of as necessarily temporary and site-specific constructions of meaning. The probable pause of materiality. Hery practice includes actions, performances, and material constructions. Currently teaching at the University of Delaware, Donovan’s most recent projects include: upcoming in November 2009, the presentation “Transmissions from Another World: Artist Apparitions in the Age of Mobile Videocasting” as part of MOBILEFEST, Museu da Imagem e do Som, Sao Paulo, Brazil; in December 2009 the construction/performance Which I Have Made (Attempting Necromancy with Wm. Blake) at the European Ceramic Work Centre (.ekwc) in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands; and in September 2009 “THESE THE HEAVENS OF MY BRAIN,” a performance in the playground as part of the 13^th Annual DUMBO Art Under the Bridge Festival in Brooklyn, NY.

and announcing our call for proposals for 2010.

After October 31st GO to www.LPVTV.blogspot.com for full application. DEADLINE IS JANUARY 1, 2010.

Le Petit Versailles

346 East Houston St. <>

petitversailles@earthlink.net http://www.lpvtv.blogspot.com 212 529 8815

Subway: F/V- Second Ave. - J/M/F- Delancey/Essex

LAST CALL for "LAST CALL"!

LAST CALL for "LAST CALL"

@ Petit Versailles.

346 East Houston St. @ Avenue C.

212 529 8815

ALL FREE

October 9 FRIDAY @ 8pm.

HUNGER VIDEOS

and by Joern Zehe, plus more surprises!

Music by Hunger provides the inspiration for videoanimated interpretations

and more video 'til the cows jumps over the moon!

ALSO LAST DAYS of " LAST CALL" exhibition @ Petit Versaillles

Visiting Hours: Wednesday - Friday 2-7pm

and

On view at 5 East 3^rd St. @ Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building thru October 10^th. Visiting Hours Tuesday - Saturday 1- 6pm.

FRISE, WSW#3 and Hamburg White Box and present an exhibition of books,catalogues,ephemeral objects, posters, invites, etc. relating to artists initiated projects in Hamburg Germany.

Support for FRISE/Last Call is provided by Robert Dell Vuyosevich, Allied Productions, Inc., Behörde für Kultur,Sport und Medien Hamburg, WSW#3-Hamburg , FRISE and Goethe-Institut New York.

LPV events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc.,

Citizens for NYC, Green Thumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts;,

NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, NYC Dept. of Sanitation & NYC Board of Education

Film & Exhibition support from The New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. Additional support, in part, by public funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.

LAST CALL October 2-12

Le Petit Versailles presents

LAST CALL

Torsten Bruch

Jörg Hochapfel

Sabine Mohr

Christoph Rothmeier

Llaura Sünner

Joern Zehe

October 2 – 12 , 2009

Installations, Film and Music in association with Hamburg artist cooperative FRISE. www.frise.de

From October 2 - 12 , the FRISE project “Last Call Hamburg” with Torsten Bruch, Jörg Hochapfel, Sabine Mohr, Christoph Rothmeier, Llaura Sünner, and Joern Zehe at the garden Le Petit Versailles in the East Village of Manhattan serving as “base camp” for installations, music and screenings. Other events are scheduled to take place at Goethe Institut’s Wyoming Building and ABC No Rio on the Lower East Side.

Opening Friday October 2 from 6-9 pm. Concert @ 7pm-HUNGER

(Jörg Hochapfel & Christoph Rothmeier) @ Le Petit Versailles. http://www.hungermuzik.de

October 3^rd @ 8pm. ME is many YOU.

Screening videos by Torsten P Bruch @ Le Petit Versailles

October 5^th 8pm @

Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building 5 East 3^rd St.

Sabine Mohr and Torsten Bruch speak on artist organized projects including FRISE, WSW#3 and Hamburg White Box and present an exhibition of ephemeral objects, posters, invites, etc. Exhibtion will be on view at Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building thru October 10^th.

^{This event is sponsored with support from Goethe-Institut New York.}

October 9^th Friday 8pm. @ Le Petit Versailles

Screening: Hunger Videos and Joern Zehe

In addition to interventions and installations of individual artists in the park itself, it will offer reports and documentation on how the artists established the cooperative FRISE eG (Sabine Mohr/Torsten Bruch), as well as a lecture on the development of artists’ self-organization in Hamburg, highlighting the WSW # 3. Information material on the many other Hamburg non-for-profit art spaces and projects from the so-called Hamburg Box will also be presented.

A film screening will show a collection of videos and movies produced by Torsten Bruch, the ABZ, Joern Zehe, Christoph Rothmeier, and other artists. [ See program notes below]

The focus of this project is the artistic exploration of the use and preservation of public space and public premises - particularly open – green - spaces in a highly developed, urban environment. The small park of Le Petit Versailles in the Lower Eastside of Manhattan, a little paradise in the midst of a highly contested and now highly valued property market, is also a symbol for the artists’ engagement against gentrification and ideally suited as a platform for this project.

Closely linked to this is the question of how non-profit-work of individual artists and artist groups can be maintained and organized in such an environment. The experiences, which the Künstlerhaus FRISE has gained in its turbulent history in Hamburg, correspond to the situation in New York on different levels and are addressed in LAST CALL.

The project Hamburg LAST CALL traces different levels of information about the circumstances of contemporary artwork and the situation of artists in the city of Hamburg /Germany in general and the specific situation of the Hamburg artist cooperative FRISE. Since FRISE/ alias Künstlerhaus Hamburg e.V. was the first so called artist house (Künstlerhaus) in Hamburg and Germany-. established in 1978, its construction and reconstruction in 2003 - gives an example and a genuine story of how an artist cooperative survived gentrification and (art) market hype. Since 1989 when Künstlerhaus, hosted the ABC NO RIO SHOW "Ten Years Seven Days" the artist collective had to leave their place, find and reconstruct another building.

In conjunction with the ABZ a video- and filmmaker organization they established FRISE in 2003. To avoid a repetition of the gentrification story and another foreseeable loss of the new place they eventually founded the FRISE eG Cooperative in 2008 and succeeded to buy the hereditary tenure of the real estate from the city for 1.4 million €. So now 40 artists have a safe place to live and work in FRISE for the next 36 years.

Three most important issues define the work of FRISE:

PRODUCTION . EXCHANGE, EXHIBITION of contemporary art - 40 artist live and work in the house ( painting, sculpture, drawing, video, experimental filmmaking a.o.), a guest studio for foreign artists was established to pursue art exchange as well as FRISE artists invite artists from all over the world to stay and work in FRISE. Since 1978 a exhibition program is realized by the FRISE artists as curators, the exhibition space is subventioned by the city.

FRISE alias Künstlerhaus Hamburg as an effective cooperation of artists had a strong impact an the cultural policy of the Hamburg city and Hamburg´s artist scene - in Hamburg now has developed an independent art scene with at least 16 to 20 independent art spaces - which have cooperated in the last two years 2007 /08 in an own festival called WSW 1 and WSW 2. The project roughly outlines this development by documents, screenings and catalogues. To present the recent video- and filmmaking activities at FRISE "Last Call" will show a video and short film program of members of ABZ and FRISE, like: Torsten Bruch, Jörn Zehe, Christoph Rothmeier.

A site specific installation for the garden "Le Petit Versailles" itself realized by Sabine Mohr, Christoph Rothmeier and Llaura Sünner will install a real utopia of Versailles en miniature in the garden.

Le Petit Versailles is a NYC public community garden in the East Village that presents a season of events including art exhibitions, music, film/video,performance, theater, workshops and community projects from May - October.

LPV is a project of Allied Productions, Inc., a non profit arts organization. http://www.alliedproductions.org

346 East Houston St. <>

petitversailles@earthlink.nethttp://www.lpvtv.blogspot.com

212 529 8815

Subway: F/V- Second Ave. - J/M/F- Delancey/Essex

• LPV events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc.,
• Green Thumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts; NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, NYC Dept. of Sanitation & NYC Board of Education.
• Film & Exhibition support from The New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
• Additional funding for Last Call is provided by Robert Dell Vuyosevich

September @ Petit Versailles

OUTSIDE IN 6

Inbred Hybrid Collective

Peter Cramer

Kuki Gomez

Deborah Holcombe

Hope Hall

Katherine Jackson

Tim Lomas

Jill London

Leslie Lowe

Tim Milk

Paul Nowell

chev d’orange

John Pavlou

Robert Petrick

Peter Shapiro

Jack Waters

September 1- 27th

Opening reception September 13 BBQ @ 2 pm.

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Upcoming In September

MEDEA

September 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26

Thursday - Saturday @ 8pm.

"So let no one think that I'm worthless and weak, who plays nice, stays at home, for that's not quite my story. I make my friends smile, and my enemies shriek, I'm one of the kind whose life is all glory."

Medea at Le Petit Versailles is a cross-culturally cast production of a modern, poetic new translation of the classic Greek play.

The production is a site-specific collaboration by local artists from a variety of fields, including dance, visual arts, film, theatre, and experimental music.

The audience steps from Houston St. into another world where the action occurs all around and among them. At first glance it may appear that Euripides in 431 BC had little to say to us about our sophisticated modern age; but when investigating deeper into our own lives, we find his haunting tale hits closer to home than we might like to admit. Exile, gender roles, submission to power and familial obligations are timeless themes we continue to play out and gain particular insight into when returning to the ancient Greeks.

Translated by Mark Buchan and Bridget Durkin
Co-Produced by Claire Lebowitz and Judi Rymer
Directed by Judi Rymer
Choreography by Jack Waters
Costumes by Leslie Lowe
Music by Masataka Odaka
Assistant Director, Nora Jane Williams

With:
Pete Caslavka

Eno Edet
Jillian L. Johnson
Mort Kroos
Claire Lebowitz
Jared Miller
Yasemin Ozumerzifon
Adrian Saich
Gargi Shinde
Anthony Sisco
Benjamin Slater
Joanie Fritz Zosike

346 East Houston St. <>

petitversailles@earthlink.nethttp://www.lpvtv.blogspot.com

212 529 8815

Subway: F/V- Second Ave. - J/M/F- Delancey/Essex

• LPV events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc.,
• Green Thumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts; NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, NYC Dept. of Sanitation & NYC Board of Education.
• Film & Exhibition support from The New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
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COCOBUTTONS by Ari Tabei 8/29/2009

Le Petit Versailles presents

COCOBUTTONS by Ari Tabei.

Saturday August 29th @ 7:30 pm

Le Petit Versailles

346 East Houston St. <>

petitversailles@earthlink.net http://www.lpvtv.blogspot.com

212 529 8815

Subway: F/V- Second Ave. - J/M/F- Delancey/Essex

COCOBUTTONS: Combination of installation, video projection and live performance. Ari Tabei constructs a cocoon-shaped bag, cover its walls with numerous buttons connected with red thread. As shaman in a red dress, she performs her ritual play, being in and out of the cocoon-bag. Her wish is to connect her cocoon-shelter reality to the world by the magical power of buttons.

Bio- Ari Tabei

Born and raised in Tokyo. Received MFA from University of Connecticut in sculpture and video performance art in May 2007. Participated in several residencies including: Chashama, Vermont Studio Center and LMCC Swing Space. Awarded the A.I.R. Gallery Fellowship for 2008-2009. Currently works with Smack Mellon Studio Program in Brooklyn, NY.

• LPV events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc.,
• Green Thumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts; NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, NYC Dept. of Sanitation & NYC Board of Education.
• Film & Exhibition support from The New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
• Additional support, in part, by public funds from NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.

EXILKABERETT 9/15/09

Le Petit Versailles

346 East Houston St.  @ Avenue C

petitversailles@earthlink.net       http://www.lpvtv.blogspot.com       212 529 8815

Subway: F/V- Second Ave. -  J/M/F- Delancey/Essex

Free / Voluntary Donation

Le Petit Versailles presents

EXILKABARETT

August 15, 2009

8- 11pm.

Inspired by Weimar Era cabaret, EXILKABARETT merges historical and present-day explorations on the theme of exile. For contemporary artists across the globe, as it was for exiles traveling across countless borders, cabaret is a crossroads of disciplines that offers limitless possibilities for creative expression.

 

Performances by:

Jessica Goldring, Marianna Vogt, Bill Solomon, Darren Chase

 Projections by: Noe Kidder

EXILKABARETT is produced by Jessica Goldring, Noe Kidder, and Marianna Vogt. Thanks to Peter Cramer, Allied Productions and New

York State Council on the Arts.

 

LPV events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc.,

Green Thumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts; NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, NYC Dept. of Sanitation & NYC Board of Education.

Film & Exhibition support from The New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

Additional support, in part, by public funds from NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.